The forestry and logging pictures thread

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[sawfun]

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That IS the perfect Mac picture. The best tool ever for that job.

 

[ajschainsaws]

That IS the perfect Mac picture. The best tool ever for that job.

Second that

 

[Skeans1]

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These old boys would call all of us a bunch of wimps with our saws and fancy stuff, heck they probably made better money back then vs what we do now.


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[jacob j.]

These old boys would call all of us a bunch of wimps with our saws and fancy stuff, heck they probably made better money back then vs what we do now.

My dad was cutting for MedCo (Medford Corporation) in 1979 on a job up above Powers, and he was making the same money in a day that I made working for Alpine Logging on a job up above Glide (Rock Creek) in 2006.

 

[jacob j.]

That IS the perfect Mac picture. The best tool ever for that job.

That picture is in Jerry Beranek's book "High Climbers and Timber Fallers." In the book, he tells some good stories about the faller in that picture, Mike Davis.

Mike's son Dustin later posted some awesome pictures of his dad working the big Redwoods on Facebook.

 

[mdavlee]

That picture is in Jerry Beranek's book "High Climbers and Timber Fallers." In the book, he tells some good stories about the faller in that picture, Mike Davis.

Mike's son Dustin later posted some awesome pictures of his dad working the big Redwoods on Facebook.

Seen people saying he was on steroids to look that big on Facebook.


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[jacob j.]

Seen people saying he was on steroids to look that big on Facebook.

I don't know about that - but a lot of the old boys here that were cutting in the '70's and into the '80's were big guys. Timber falling in
those days was a 'power' event - big saws, long bars, big jacks, & springboards in big wood.

These days here it's an 'endurance' event - smaller saws, no (or very little) spring-boarding, very little jacking, medium and shorter bars in
smaller wood. On "Straight" falling jobs these days where you're just sending trees straight down the hill - you're jogging from tree to tree
and you're just trying to get as much wood down in a day as you can.

When I was cutting full time - I was around 175 lbs. on average. My dad was my same height but he walked around at 245-250 lbs. when
he was cutting full time.

 

[Altamaha]

That picture is in Jerry Beranek's book "High Climbers and Timber Fallers." In the book, he tells some good stories about the faller in that picture, Mike Davis.

Mike's son Dustin later posted some awesome pictures of his dad working the big Redwoods on Facebook.

Yes I have Jerry's book. Fascinating photos! If I recall correctly, Mike was injured by a falling tree, sort of recovered, but later died as a result of his injuries.

My favorite photos are those of Jerry topping a Redwood, he is 150 or so feet above the ground, with springboards and planks and two saws (090 and 075). And a helper. Think it was 7 ft diameter at the topping height. Must have taken two days to rig all the equipment up there. Jerry had a cast on his leg from a injury (think he worked for an arborist) but he strapped the gaffs on and took off to top the tree, cast and all!! The tree was an old widow maker that previous fallers had left, too risky to fall. Jerry & crew ran a cable to a cat and pulled the top and later the remaining tree into the hillside.

The photos were on one of Bailey's catalogs back in the 1980's. If I can remember I will take a photo of the catalog and post here, I still have it. I think Baileys still has the book and a big poster of the photos.

And of course Bill Bailey is in the book also with photos. The guys called him Popeye.

 

[Altamaha]

Here is the catalog, Bailey's from 1985.

Note a couple of things in the photos:

The cast on Jerry's right leg.

84 inch bar on the 090. Nice.

Note how far the remaining trunk moves when the top kicks off. Reference the tree to the left before and after the top kicks.

Interesting face cut to let the top fall more before kicking off.

Chains and load binders above and below the cut to prevent "barber chairing" (splitting of either the top section or the lover section). Barber Chairing has killed many a guy, a gent was recently killed in Pennsylvania due to a tree barber chairing. Real easy to prevent with a little thought. When I am dropping a good size alder (which splits easy) I put a chain and binder above and below the cut also. I have seen them barber chair.

Photos taken by a guy in an adjacent tree and higher.

 

[rocketnorton]

having broke and stretched g7 1/2" chain movin machinery, have often wondered if it would stop a big chair...
maybe give ya lil more time to gtfo, if not...

 

[mdavlee]

I don't know about that - but a lot of the old boys here that were cutting in the '70's and into the '80's were big guys. Timber falling in
those days was a 'power' event - big saws, long bars, big jacks, & springboards in big wood.

These days here it's an 'endurance' event - smaller saws, no (or very little) spring-boarding, very little jacking, medium and shorter bars in
smaller wood. On "Straight" falling jobs these days where you're just sending trees straight down the hill - you're jogging from tree to tree
and you're just trying to get as much wood down in a day as you can.

When I was cutting full time - I was around 175 lbs. on average. My dad was my same height but he walked around at 245-250 lbs. when
he was cutting full time.

I didn’t think that would work out. Steroids usually needs lots of workout time instead of actually working to get big on. I’ve seen people gain a ton of fat on them too if they eat and don’t work out right


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[Altamaha]

having broke and stretched g7 1/2" chain movin machinery, have often wondered if it would stop a big chair...
maybe give ya lil more time to gtfo, if not...

Don't Linger At The Stump!!!

Back in the late 1970's I followed some of the Crown Zellerbach Fallers, just to watch what they did.

1. They always cleared an escape path when falling big timber.

2. Pant legs were cut off nearly at the boot tops and splits started with a knife. This way if the pants leg got caught up on a snag it would split instead of tripping you or hanging you up in harms way.

3. Drop the saw and git! Don't worry about the saw being damaged, spare saws and chains in the truck nearby.

 

[jacob j.]

Some cool classic Collins Pine pictures from Gary Ford out of northern California:

 

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